Proper Names

London [lndən]

Great Britain [greit britən]

The Thames [temz]

The North Sea [n:]

The Tower [tauə]

London Bridge [brid]

St. Paul’s Cathedral [p:lz]

Hyde Park [haid]

Speakers’ Corner [spi:kəz k:nə]

Oxford Street [ksfəd]

The Houses of Parliament [pa:ləmənt]

Parliament Square [skwεə]

West End

East End

Westminster Abbey [æbi]

The Victoria Tower [vikt:riə]

The Bloody Tower [bldi]

Queen Elizabeth [kwi:n ilizəbəθ]

Trafalgar Square [trəfælgə]

Lord Mayor [l:d mεə]

Covent Garden [kvənt ga:dn]

Bristol [bristl]

Devon [devn]

Cornwall [k:nwəl]

Somerset [sməsit]

The Avon [eivən]

Gascony [gæskəni]

Portugal [p:tjugəl]

Birmingham [bə:miŋəm]

Edinburgh [ednbərə]

Cardiff [ka:dif]

Phonetic exercises

Exercise 1. Pronounce the words correctly. Pay attention to the way of pronunciation of the stressed vowels and consonants.

[] London, one, cultural, once, trust, underground, run, among, lovely, public, thoroughfare, bus, double, countryside, industrial, country, junction, such, construction, number

[ə:] commercial, world, serve, desert, church, work, urban, early, university

[a:] largest, guard, architect, parties, park, far, heart, art, example, market

[ei] major, later, ancient, renaissance, great, face, famous, paper-making, greatest, remained, place

[iə] museum, theatre

[i:] feel, teaching, leave, Queen, speech, key, proceed, cathedral, equally, easily, scheme, free, team

[:] taught, Lords, escort (v), warder, corner, quarter, more, restored, sport, course

[ou] spoken, opening, throne, approach, over, stroke, poet, motorway, road, postwar, local, most

[ai] surprise, find, time, sightseer, side, night, Whitehall, Prime, exciting, finest, library, private, provide

[aiə]variety

[eə] airport, square, Mayor, dairy, aircraft, area

[æ] traffic, abbey, lantern, Trafalgar, statue, narrow, pageant, access, massive, gallery, magnet, canal

[au] county, town, flour, founded, now

[I] business, buildings, inner, ring, facilities, indoor, municipal

Exercise 2. Pronounce the words paying attention to the way of pronunciation of consonants.

[∫] mansion, residential, shop, commercial, English, Englishmen, demonstration, permission, function, schedule, rush

[d] major, general, passenger, pageant, Ages, challenge, geographical

[k] monarch, clock, lock, commemoration, victory

Lexical exercises

Exercise 1. Identify the part of speech in each column, translate into Russian.

traveller exception actually facing geographical

sightseer commemoration practically leading ceremonial

warder demonstration mainly touching cultural

stranger permission undoubtedly confusing unimpressive

Exercise 2. Translate into Russian, paying attention to the suffixes of the words

Industry – industrial, commerce – commercial, culture – cultural, design – to design – to be designed – designer, beauty – beautiful, resident – residential, to work – work – worker, architect – architecture – architectural, to travel – traveler, to build – to be built – builder, to enter – entry, luxury - luxurious

Exercise 3. A) Make up the pairs of synonyms.

Old, to be concentrated, to go, metro, empty, cathedral, nice, constant

Steady, to travel, ancient, underground, to be centered, deserted, lovely, church

B) Make up the pairs of antonyms.

Left, famous, wealthy, various, residential area, narrow, slow, ancient

Unknown, modern, right, industrial area, poor, fast, wide, the same

Text 1

Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.